An intern built a fleet mileage tracker

“It's just CRUD.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because the spreadsheet has 1,254 rows and 94 tabs. With 1 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Thomas, a team lead

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a Google Sheet with 40,817 rows and 9 tabs

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 6% battery

Responsible:

Thomas, who left 7 months ago

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 823 days ago

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for May and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will break the day Thomas changes their password.

Age: 96 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 96 days ago · original builder left 42 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €294k per year, 4 departments depend on it, 41% chance of becoming business critical.